Morning before the Walkthrough

It's Friday morning. I'm at home because the boy has lice and he can't go to daycare today. I'm also trying to work, so my friends Dora and Diego are babysitting right now. I'm also thinking about the walk through we have at the house today. We've set aside two hours to go through the house room by room and develop a final punchlist. We were supposed to get all the final permits dealt with yesterday, but it sounds like there were several issues. Nothing major...hopefully. The biggest items were around needing another cold air return in the house, the inspector didn't like the lights in our closet (ceiling pendants with open edges) and apparently, the stair-rails can't have open ends.

That last one is kind of funny, or maybe not if you're a firefighter. Apparently code says that we can't have these open hand rails (see pics below) at the end of each rail because should firemen with hoses rush into your house, those hoses could get caught and snagged on the rails. I get it, but... really!?



Another quick update is that the cabinet hardware issue that I blogged about on Wednesday isn't quite the disaster I thought it would be. The order was wrong, but only for one side of the kitchen. I don't have a close up, but we're fairly pleased with the hardware. It's that bar style, but somewhat different and substantial enough that it works well with the big drawers and doors in the kitchen. And I literally mean big. We ended up being surprised with the size... in a good way of course. For example, all the drawers on the same side as this pic are ~36" wide. 36 inches for silverware? Wow....



What else? Lots of finished coating for the cabinetry and wood work that's been installed over the past few days. So, there's lots of plastic hanging around with guys inside spraying. I'll be interested to see how things look later today.

We also got to see the laundry room cabinetry for the first time this week. We didn't go with the Doug Fir wood for a couple reasons. First was the added expense. Second, that stuff is soft. I've already put a couple real small dings in places, so we opted for a laminate (Shaker Cheery, I believe). Here's a couple shots a couple days apart.



We're still missing a countertop in this room. That's actually probably the biggest missing component in the house, which if you think about it is pretty good in terms of MOC meeting there timeline.

I think I'll leave it at that for now. At the moment, I'm not feeling so overwhelmed, which is good considering the two hours of punch list we have in front of us today. It seems to change by the time of the day though. We've been at the house every day this week and there's always something. Whether it was walking around in the dark Monday night or meeting the Closet Factory person yesterday, there's so much going on, we just have to be on top of it best we can.

It's amusing that earlier this week we had to move our regular Tuesday meeting to Wednesday. Kathleen asked that since we had our punch list meeting on Friday, if we even needed our weekly meeting. right.... every time we stop by, there's always a few questions. I've said this before, but it always makes me wonder how they're making decisions when we're not there...?